Brian L. Lewis

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Brian is the chair of Ryan Swanson’s Real Estate, Development & Finance Group. He focuses his practice on real estate transactions and debtor/creditor relations. Brian has drafted, negotiated and reviewed purchase and sale agreements, leases, loan documents and development agreements on behalf of lenders, borrowers, real estate developers and institutional land owners. He also has extensive experience in drafting condominium documents for residential, commercial and mixed-use new construction and condominium conversion projects. He has worked on a number of large scale projects throughout the City of Seattle and the greater Puget Sound area, but also enjoys helping small business and individuals accomplish their real estate goals. Brian was also one of the primary contributing drafters of the 2011 legislative amendments to the Washington State Receivership Act and has handled dozens of real estate transactions arising from state and federal insolvency proceedings.

Representative Experience

Represent Cornish College of the Arts in its acquisition, disposition, leasing, development and financing of multiple downtown Seattle properties related to its campus relocation from Seattle’s Capitol Hill to the South Lake Union/Denny Triangle neighborhood.

Represent City of Seattle in negotiation of mixed-use development agreement for Seattle Civic Square located at 3rd and James in downtown Seattle.

Represented developer/borrower in connection with $255 million construction financing and negotiation of development agreement with adjacent property owner (Rainier Club) for mixed-use tower project at Fifth and Columbia in downtown Seattle.

Represent publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust in various acquisition, disposition and financing matters for shopping centers located throughout the Puget Sound region, including grocery-anchored mixed use development projects in condominium structure.

Represent Australian investment bank in negotiation and closing of $30 million deed-in-lieu of foreclosure transaction and its subsequent ownership, management and liquidation of 182 unit condominium development located in Seattle, Washington.

Represented developer/borrower in connection with acquisition and planned redevelopment of historical restaurant/warehouse building on Seattle waterfront.

Represent purchaser in $46 million acquisition and subsequent leasing of multi-building office park located in Kent, Washington.